At this point, unfortunately yes - I think the Gatehouse-Gannett entity probably needs to go through bankruptcy, because of the massive debt service they have, and their current executives not having a clue or options to turn it around. I'm always going to stump for the boots-on-the-ground reporters, who are all pretty much working as hard as they can to make less-with-more. But I'm not sure what the end game here is, short of some of these papers just "relaunching" or being sold off to public entities. (There's been some success in the midwest and south, with partnerships between papers and local public broadcasting or NPR stations, using each other's resources.)RF1 wrote: ↑1 year ago Today's Projo is just a shell of what it once was. It is sad as it was a great newspaper at one time. Now it has a small overworked staff that cannot possibly adequately cover local content properly. While the paper's content and quality have been decreasing, the cost it charges its readers has risen dramatically. This has led to a huge drop in circulation (myself even having dropped it after decades) which has only further hastened its decline. Things are so bad that its parent is once again mandating unpaid furloughs for its staff. The paper's future is not bright. I think the Boston Globe senses this and explains why it hired RI based staff members to increase its coverage of the state. The Globe likely anticipates a future where RI no longer has its own dominant state newspaper.
I didn't realize the projo was still around. That rag has been dead for a long while.Iggy1979 wrote: ↑1 year ago Not one word in today's paper about win over Monmouth. They even chose not to run the short AP article available to them around 5 pm.
Please complain to Bill Corey bcorey@providencejournal.com. whether you read the Projo or not we shouldn't stand for this kind of disrespect. If we don't complain nothing will change.
As expected the URI game is included in Monday’s paper. This has been the pattern all season.Iggy1979 wrote: ↑1 year ago Not one word in today's paper about win over Monmouth. They even chose not to run the short AP article available to them around 5 pm.
Please complain to Bill Corey bcorey@providencejournal.com. whether you read the Projo or not we shouldn't stand for this kind of disrespect. If we don't complain nothing will change.
Id say it’s more about how to prioritize limited resources.SGreenwell wrote: ↑1 year agoAt this point, unfortunately yes - I think the Gatehouse-Gannett entity probably needs to go through bankruptcy, because of the massive debt service they have, and their current executives not having a clue or options to turn it around. I'm always going to stump for the boots-on-the-ground reporters, who are all pretty much working as hard as they can to make less-with-more. But I'm not sure what the end game here is, short of some of these papers just "relaunching" or being sold off to public entities. (There's been some success in the midwest and south, with partnerships between papers and local public broadcasting or NPR stations, using each other's resources.)RF1 wrote: ↑1 year ago Today's Projo is just a shell of what it once was. It is sad as it was a great newspaper at one time. Now it has a small overworked staff that cannot possibly adequately cover local content properly. While the paper's content and quality have been decreasing, the cost it charges its readers has risen dramatically. This has led to a huge drop in circulation (myself even having dropped it after decades) which has only further hastened its decline. Things are so bad that its parent is once again mandating unpaid furloughs for its staff. The paper's future is not bright. I think the Boston Globe senses this and explains why it hired RI based staff members to increase its coverage of the state. The Globe likely anticipates a future where RI no longer has its own dominant state newspaper.
They would almost certainly "hold" a portion of the front for that if they can, sure, similar to how election night works. However, a regular season URI football game with Monmouth definitely isn't comparable to winning the Big East tournament. Would they "hold" a page if URI was in the A-10 Final and it fell on a Saturday afternoon? That's probably the better comparison. I would think "yes," but it's hard to prove, since the A-10 final is held on Sundays anyway.bigappleram wrote: ↑1 year ago I wrote Bill from Iggy's email drop. He said out of his control and it was all due to early deadlines for Sunday print.
So you're telling me if PC won the BE championship game on a Saturday (when the game is played) that they wouldn't have any coverage in the Sunday paper? I find that hard to believe.
URI Football Games played on Saturday used to be in the Sunday Providence Journal. This is a recent development.SGreenwell wrote: ↑1 year agoThey would almost certainly "hold" a portion of the front for that if they can, sure, similar to how election night works. However, a regular season URI football game with Monmouth definitely isn't comparable to winning the Big East tournament. Would they "hold" a page if URI was in the A-10 Final and it fell on a Saturday afternoon? That's probably the better comparison. I would think "yes," but it's hard to prove, since the A-10 final is held on Sundays anyway.bigappleram wrote: ↑1 year ago I wrote Bill from Iggy's email drop. He said out of his control and it was all due to early deadlines for Sunday print.
So you're telling me if PC won the BE championship game on a Saturday (when the game is played) that they wouldn't have any coverage in the Sunday paper? I find that hard to believe.
ETA: Although, I might be making an assumption that they have permission to "hold" pages at all, anymore. The litmus test for that would be the November election. If they're running results a day late - or if they did that in 2020 - well, that would suggest they're not going to hold the paper for any reason.
Nice whining. Now explain in depth how any of this has anything to do with football coverageOBRAM wrote: ↑8 months ago Projo is just an extension of USA Today and a Progressive Rag.
Every now and then Projo does some investigative journalism on the corruption in the State of RI, but not very often now.
Even when the Letters to the Editors started to swing anti-Biden, Projo just eliminated them except for Saturday and Sunday when they could hope to get a few Progressive Letters in.
Just a symptom of the minimal resources the ProJo now has. The paper printed NOTHING about the Harborside fire on Block Island until Tuesday, four days afterwards. Yes, they had some online reporting, regurgitating fire dept statements. In the Metcalf days, they would have had a team of reporters covering it.bigappleram wrote: ↑8 months ago The best was the editor telling me that it was too late for Sunday paper coverage when the Saturday game ended at 3pm. Yet if PC plays on Saturday night somehow it will still make it into the Sunday paper.
What's a "team of reporters?"Rhody74 wrote: ↑8 months agoJust a symptom of the minimal resources the ProJo now has. The paper printed NOTHING about the Harborside fire on Block Island until Tuesday, four days afterwards. Yes, they had some online reporting, regurgitating fire dept statements. In the Metcalf days, they would have had a team of reporters covering it.bigappleram wrote: ↑8 months ago The best was the editor telling me that it was too late for Sunday paper coverage when the Saturday game ended at 3pm. Yet if PC plays on Saturday night somehow it will still make it into the Sunday paper.
Here are pictures of the HarborsideNYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑8 months agoWhat's a "team of reporters?"Rhody74 wrote: ↑8 months agoJust a symptom of the minimal resources the ProJo now has. The paper printed NOTHING about the Harborside fire on Block Island until Tuesday, four days afterwards. Yes, they had some online reporting, regurgitating fire dept statements. In the Metcalf days, they would have had a team of reporters covering it.bigappleram wrote: ↑8 months ago The best was the editor telling me that it was too late for Sunday paper coverage when the Saturday game ended at 3pm. Yet if PC plays on Saturday night somehow it will still make it into the Sunday paper.
Was that Mike Szostak who had the picks every Saturday morning?
You need sportswriters to do that. The ProJo only has two full time sportswriters as far as I can tell.
